Mercury In Capricorn: Precision In Language
“We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.”
–Benjamin Lee Whorf, linguist
January 2011
Balance Between Yin and Yang Signs In The Natal Chart
Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius and Aquarius and the yang or positive or male signs. The remaining signs are yin, negative or feminine. I’ve been working with a client who has every single planet in her chart, save Uranus in one of the yin signs. I’ve written about women in the opposite situation. Women who
Interaspects, Who “Feels” What
“When I first got home my wife Theresa beat me, and the blows fell very lightly on my back. She kept missing every other stroke and crying from the heart that while I’d been gone she’d gone and lost the knack! Of course I hit her back, Your Grace, but she is much harder than I am.”
–Sancho Panza, Man of La Mancha
On Being High-Minded And Devious
There is only person in this world who I think truly understands the way my mind works and it is my sister. This is because she grew up with me. We shared a bedroom. We have the same parents and if you took any one of those things out of the equation, I think she’d
Venus Aspecting Pluto In Synastry And The Composite Chart
“Snakes, why did it have to be snakes?” –Indiana Jones My Venus quincunxes my man’s Pluto. His Venus quincunxes my Pluto. This is called a “double whammy” in astrology slang, interaspects with the same planets repeated from chart to chart. It’s not exact or within the strict orb (2 to 3 degrees) but the effect
Vicious Women: Opposition, Projection, The Moon And The 7th House
“She looks like something that would eat its young.”
–Dorothy Parker